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Quotes About Employment

In terms of using my degree, I started working for YP; I signed on as director of communications.
~ Nicole Johnson
We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.
~ Ben Bernanke
Technology has been advancing so fast that the number of jobs globally in manufacturing is declining. There is no way that Trump can bring significant numbers of manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
~ Joseph Stiglitz
There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
~ Fabrizio Moreira
We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.
~ Emmanuel Macron
I'm chronically unemployed. Never had a job my whole life. None of my family did. I take that back. Once my daddy was hired on a construction crew for two weeks and two days. He said it was way more work than it paid. He maintained it was just one more way to take advantage of the poor.
~ Sue Grafton
Almost no one understood the fundamental idea behind writing a job application letter. They would write sentences such as I have no job and would like a job or I am bored and want a job. The entire concept of making oneself marketable in the eyes of a prospective employer did not exist.
~ Suki Kim
Think I could get a job rustling cattle?" "Rustling? That's stealing." "Oh. I mean taking care of them." "You'd better learn your terms before you apply.
~ Susan Mallery
most of us no longer have the luxury of asking whether a job is genuinely productive, but only whether it pays well and has tolerable conditions.
~ Susan Neiman
But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.
~ Susanna Clarke
I mean, what's wrong with treating something as a day job? Day jobs are perfectly respectable. We're all here to make rent money by tricking people into buying things, right, so why try to elevate it?
~ Joshua Allen
We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
~ Joshua Ferris
Layoffs were upon us. They had been rumored for months, but now it was official. If you were lucky, you could sue. If you were black, aged, female, Catholic, Jewish, gay, obese, or physically handicapped, at least you had grounds.
~ Joshua Ferris
En mi profesión ser decente suele conducir a que te quedes sin empleo. No sabes cómo está el periodismo en este país. O estás alineado con la derecha o lo estás con la izquierda. No eres más que una correa de transmisión de las consignas de uno o de otro. Pero intentar contar simplemente lo que pasa y opinar honradamente, te lleva a la marginación y al paro.
~ Julia Navarro
Why does the American cyberindustry have a thing for Indians?
~ Amitava Kumar
If you make yourself indispensable to your employer, he is not going to part with you in a hurry no matter what it costs him.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
With industrial revival, I see a lot of jobs coming in for the youth of Punjab.
~ Amarinder Singh
One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.
~ William Clay Ford, Jr.
I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.
~ Edward Burtynsky
When you feel house poor, you don't buy anything. Housing immediately impacts the job numbers because there are so many housing-related jobs within the industry, and in adjacent industries.
~ Mellody Hobson
Work has always been influenced by technology and will continue to be.
~ Sharan Burrow
We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.
~ Mark Cuban
Spending on infrastructure will help employment.
~ Jejomar Binay